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From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
Subject: Re: Why is France systematically excluded?
In-Reply-To: dba@uniserve.com's message of 19 Aug 1996 02:18:12 GMT
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Date: 19 Aug 1996 16:37:20 GMT

In article <4v8it4$o0k@atlas.uniserve.com> dba@uniserve.com (Brian
Allardice) writes:


|> >In article <4uvdkf$7ir@sv8.ictp.trieste.it> singular@oort.ap.sissa.it (Poll Dubh) writes:
|> > > >Maybe France doesn't even want to sign these treaties, since there's
|> > > >only one official language anyway (never mind Gaelic, Basque, German
|> > > >and a smattering of Dutch). 
|> > > 
|> > > Gaelic? Breton isn't Gaelic.


|> Au Contraire!! We, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh (Gauls, in French)
|> the Bretons and, should any survive, the Cornish, represent the authentic
|> spirit of (what is now called) France.  Forget the gang of German 
|> barbarians who pretend to run it now.  We of the western extremities
|> fought off the Romans, the Goths, the Vandals, the Lombards, the 
|> Burgundians, the Angles, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Huns, the Saracens,
|> you name it: we beat them all!!!

Been reading too much Asterix, I see.
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